Tokenisation & Digital Assets

Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks. 

To follow soon … 

• Mapping the Growth of Digitalised Currency – Identifying Indicators of Progress. 
• What are the aims for digitalised currency in 2022-2025?  
• The Art of Persuasion – how to bring round the critics and move closer to ubiquitous adoption.  
• Starting up and settling in – what is the advice for new innovators in the field? 

• What is the current status of CBDCs globally? 
• What are the different approaches to CBDCs across the globe? 
• The current landscape – Is there room for CBDCs? 
• What issues may CBDCs face?  

• Britcoin or Shitcoin – Why are some rich countries hesitant to adopt Central Bank Digital Currencies?  
• On-boarding problems – what infrastructural adjustments are required to adopt a CBDC?  
• Wholesale, or retail, or both?   
• Use cases – what can we learn from countries who already have CBDCs?

• In line with current digital assets trends, which exchange functions are likely to become more popular this year? 
• DEX’s – an autonomous utopia or the wild west? 
• Making Crypto Accessible – how essential is platform usability, and should there be more emphasis on education?

To follow soon …

• AltCoins – a dated name?   
• The ease of coin creation and the potential consequences of market saturation 
• How to recognise a good investment 

• Will we see more major companies adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender?  
• How can retail banks keep up?   
• Health and Safety – Is there increased security risk in cutting out intermediaries? 

• Working up to ICO/IDO – the checklist for new ideas?  
• How to attract attention and win over the market   
• Siezing the moment – post-ICO/IDO strategy 

• The progress so far – why are regulatory bodies nervous to approach the crypto world? 
• Future potentials of a governed space – how would better regulation enhance capabilities of digital asset companies? 
• Fiscal policy and a growing crypto economy – the pros and cons of taxing crypto-assets. 

• Risk-based taxonomy of crypto assets and blockchain networks: Should the Basel Framework be supplemented with rules that address DLT specific risks?
• What are key drivers of DLT risk and how do they fit in the existing categories of credit, market, liquidity and operational risk?
• Could this framework also be applied to support the uptake of CBDCs as resilient on/off ramps to the DeFi ecosystem and how does this future challenge the current stablecoin status quo?